Project 1845 in a nutshell is a world first open-source map of ancient Chinese landmarks in and around Beijing City From Ming - Qing dynasties. Major projects as part of the bigger project include:

1:1 scale replica of the ENTIRE Beijing Cityback in 1750

1:1 scale replica of the Forbidden City back in 1750

1:1 scale replica of Ming Dynasty Tombs 1368 - 1641

1:1 scale replica of Summer Palace in 1911

1:1 scale replica of Yuanmingyuan 1760 - 1901

This entire project is eligible to become a world record once completed at the largest 1:1 scale replica user-built building project in the entire sandbox game genre.

Please take note that almost all major landmarks on themselves are world-first 1:1 scale builds in Minecraft at least, due to complexity and lack of simple schematics.

Current Statistics During Construction:

8.6%Total Completed

Four Years of Construction So Far

180,750,823Blocks Used So Far

Will Contain Approximately 2,100,000,000 blocks

Approximately4-9 Yearsto Go

Over 120 Kilometersof minecart rail to travel on(75+ miles)

Scale:1:1 ( 1 block = 1 Cubic Meter )

Map Size:16,000 x 16,000 Blocks (256 square kilometers)

Anniversary of Groundbreaking:17 July 2011

Amount of Buildings:~360-420,000

Current Project Records:

Largest Urban Minecraft Project

Largest 1:1 scale Replica

5th LargestMinecraft Project Ever

Most "Diamonds" for any PMC submission in any category

There is more to the project than just building a Minecraft map. We are also porting it into MinecraftEDU to teach people about history, language and geography. Also the project is helping promote the original rare map and to help in its restoration process so more people can enjoy this unique piece of history which has been hidden from the public for centuries.We are attempting a world record with it becoming the largest single 1:1 scale replica build project in theentire sandbox game genre which has been confirmed to be a legit world record with theGuinnessworld record books. This has been confirmed by Guinness but it isn't our main aim of the project.

The entire project is fully downloadable by everyone. You can download the latest snapshot at the Minecraft World Save button and search for previous worldsave snapshots.

Download Size: 256mb
Latest Month Snapshot: 16 - August - 2014
Minimum Requirements:Winzip: (To uncompress the file)
If your computer can play and run minecraft, you can run this map.

- Custom Trees - 17 custom built trees built to scale, based off Native Chinese trees found on wikipediaVersion 1.1- 1845 Signature Clouds -Swirling clouds of snow that are tileable for yourAsianprojects. These were designed by a project volunteer namedClarvel.- Statue of Bohtauri -A not so serious schematic, have a statue of me lying down. You can see this in my tomb on the project map (hmm, maybe im a zombie?)- Spirit Tower -A signature building in the ming tombs to help lead the spirits of dead emperors to heaven. Simple but puuuurty!- Changling Tomb Treasure Building -A landmark building in the project for its detail and awe inspiring looks. Now you can own it today :)Version 1.0- Tiao Tian Temple -One of the few circular building in project 1845 it is used to worship the heavens for the common folk in Beijing.- 1845 Visitors Center -The starting point for any traveler for any visitor to the project on the server.
- Corner Tower of Inner Palace -The corner tower with 7separateroofs is apieceof unique construction in the project.
- Hall of the Ancestors -The largest single building in the Schematics pack. This was used by the emperor to worship his ancestors inside the Forbidden City
- Lead Arrchitects Residence -You can now live in the house the lead architect and curator of the project map lives in.
- Silk Workshops Main Hall -This empty building is small and unique enough to be in the pack if you want a small central meeting place for people or to be used however you want.

Frequently Asked Questions

This is a list of questions i Regularly have to attend to, hopefully this will reduce the questions asked somwhat.

How Can I Help Build?

You cannot physically help the project directly at the moment unless you have proven your skills to Bohtauri. We are building a school to help teach people how to build for the project, once that is done we will start taking more volunteers more frequently.

Can You Check My Project?

If I checked everything or went to visit everything players asked, Project 1845 will never be completed, please dont be offended if I say no.

Who Runs Project 1845?

Bohtauriis founder, lead architect and has single handedly built a majority of the project

Hang On, This Isnt Legit?

The Forbidden City,Centerpieceof Project 1845, containing 4.2 Million blocks was built 100% legit and was the slowest time of construction. The rest of the project will contain 2.096 Billion Blocks and will be spawned blocks. A minority of it will be worldedited but over 600,000 buildings will be unique making worldedit for a large majority of the entire project impossible to use. I have never claimed the project is done 100% legit and here is why:

If we did the ENTIRE project 1845 100% legit then we will need 15 users working on the project 40 hours a week EACH for 7 days a week for 95 years. Now, do you call spawned blocks cheating? no, making this legit will take over a century. This would be literally condemningpeople to work more than an entire lifetime to build it legit, call spawned items cheating on the project and this is why I will ban you, I don't have patience anymore for sh*tstirring.

"1845" is in the 19th Century

"1845" in "project 1845" has nothing to do with a year. Its main section, Beijing City is based off a map dated to 1750 which is the 18th century.

and yes, project 1845 is composed of at least 4independentprojects dating from 1600 - 1945.

This isnot a problem caused by Project 1845. If you are not using 64-bit java 7 then your minecraft is prone to crash more when playing any map.Reduce your view distanceand/or increase your RAM allowance to java.(google has how-to's for this)

Yonghegong Lama Temple, The largest tibetan buddhist temple outside of Tibet is being built at the moment.

New Imperial Axis flyover video, for the 4th Anniversary since construction began that is almost here.

Over 2,500 new buildings have been built.

Foundations for several square kilometers of farmland have been completed.

Approximately 19 Million Blocks have been added to the project since the last update on here.

Approximately 1.5% more has been completed in the past 5 months, this is also the fastest we have built things so far, By this time next year we will be well above 10% completion. Please remember guys this isnt linear progression, this is exponential and will be completed probably ahead of schedule.

We have begun on a new rail route to help you explore some of the outer suburbs in Beijing without needing a map.

Update #132 : 01/11/2015 1:59:56 am1/11/15

New year, Big Updates!!

2015 is going to be a big year, already two weeks in and lots of updates to share.

Over 200 kilometers of roads added (This took most of the time)

Northern granary outlined, expect buildings to appear soon

Yonghegong lama temple outlined, expect buildings to appear soon

Builders school moved onto its own map, all buildings examples easily organised and accessible to the public

Dynmap overhauled so you can see all progress in the 3D view again (link on the website)

Server Updated to 1.8!!! 1.8 clients can now connect and view this project.

Northern hinterlands now have some roads, farmland incoming soon

All this construction has an acculumated time of over 400 hours of buildtime!

Our website also has a growing amount of content about our other projects. You can see this content being added almost on a daily basis at our main website www.project1845.com

Update #131 : 08/16/2014 7:14:02 pm8/16/14

New Worldsave Download!!

After 7 months of no worldsave download, we have a new one!!! with several million more blocks added, you can be sure to see a lot more content around the map. Click the worldsave download button for it now.

We have also changed its compression to .zip to make it more OSX and Linux friendly, downside is that the file is twice the size but rest assured, if your computer can run minecraft, it can run this map!

Update #130: Update Time!! : 08/07/2014 11:47:17 pm8/07/14

Server IP has port numbers again (temporaily) project1845.net:65525

New YouTube video of the Imperial axis, compare it to what it looked like last year July.

2 months ago we were at 6.3% complete, were now at 6.5% complete :D (that is an extra 3 million blocks by the way)

3 Year Anniversary Today : 07/17/2014 1:47:33 am7/17/14

Yes, three years have passed. On the 17th July 2011 Bohtauri has started Project 1845 and the big plan that minecraft is only a small peice of that big puzzle. A big shout out to the supporters of todays Livestream, first one in 6 months!! Its been great to see the community still behind and supporting this great resource for education.

I do have content planned and working on, it is running behind schedule but it will be up shortly. Including updated dynmaps, infographics and shiny new shader renders :)

Update #128 : 03/19/2014 2:30:03 am3/19/14

2 Months of no updates heh?

Time to let everyone know whats been happening.

New Brand Name: We will be shifting away from calling this Project 1845, this name has served us well but it has come to the point of not representing the big plan. This project is a replica of Beijing City in 1751 AD which is part of the Digital Historian Project. But dont worry, thew

New Images: Added many new simple shader renders of major completed sites. More coming soon.

Port Number Update: The IP address is now just project1845.net no port numbers. Please note too that this project is not a standalone server, it is a project inside the Earthrealm server community.

Expanded Website: lots of things I can say here. New design layout, new content, regular blog posts to keep up to date and a store being constructed to buy merchandise if you want to support us

Things Built: We have gone from 5.0% to 6.2% in the past 2 months which is a stunning achievment, this is more than 12 million blocks placed!!

Also, Things Being Worked On:

More videos

Project profile is going to get a makeover!!

More renders

Updated resource pack

More built content

Regular website news

Website store

Update #127 : 01/15/2014 11:00:54 pm1/15/14

January snapshot has been uploaded and freely available. You can download this from the download link in the main description box area. Enjoy :)

Update #126 : 12/27/2013 4:20:35 pm12/27/13

project is updated to 1.7.4 (bungee)

Project 1845 is on the IP project1845.net

This is a special bungee server, this means you can login with a 1.7.4 client while the server is still a 1.6.4 server and world-saves. you can still login with a 1.6.4 client if you have special mods but this is to stop restricting players who keep updated.

Update #125 : 11/12/2013 12:37:02 am11/12/13

Snapshot #28 of the Project1845 worldsave is available for download!! Click the link below for details.

Since the previous snapshot available last July we have completed over 0.5% of the projects total completion. That's still another 12 million blocks of content added in the past 4 months!!

Next big Project 1845 livestream will be run this thursday (AustralianEST Time GMT+10)

A HUGE thank you to all Project 1845 supporters for our first 24 hour livestream. Even though a rogue PMC moderator thought I was spamming updates and blocked access to the 1845 page we still managed toattracta record number of visitors to the livestream and the server.

On other news, we are planning a 24 hour livestream marathon this week, wednesday midday - thursday midday (gmt+10) This will be on the twitch stream of Bohtauri and CharedeGaming which are both found in PMC's LiveTV section. Something to add to your calendar. Join us and find out answers to all your questions, no matter how small. Maybe some youtube celebs will be turning up maybe ;)

Update #119 : 07/22/2013 8:08:38 pm7/22/13

Minecraft Mondays Show

Yep, were in it again! This time in Episode 112. Just so everyone knows. the new server IP is project1845.net:65525

Update #118 : 07/16/2013 1:06:40 am7/16/13

24th Snapshot - July 2013 - Out Now!

Download via the usual way. Since the last one we reached 5% complete with a lot of new renovation work done on the Forbidden City section plus more farmland. Things have been busy recently, setting things up for the 2 year anniversary which is Tomorrow!!

Update #117 : 07/10/2013 11:40:49 pm7/10/13

New 2 Year Anniversary Video & 5% Complete.

1st year we completed 1.9% while in our second year we completed 3.1%, next year we should do another 5 - 7% and so on, steadily completing it faster and faster every year.

Also, the new youtube video on the project page is a flyover of the entire imperial axis, which is very long but shows a lot of good parts. From now on, we will produce one of these flyovers at least once a year, that way you can compare changes, additions and renovations. Enjoy :)

Update #116 : 07/07/2013 9:04:23 pm7/07/13

We have reached another milestone!

We have just surpassed 100,000 downloads of worldsaves on our PMC page. Thank you so much for your support everyone. :)

Update #115 : 06/27/2013 9:23:46 pm6/27/13

June Snapshot download available.

Yep, we sure do. Brand spanking new snapshot available to download. just re download the worldsave from the usual location. Its only 20mb larger than the last snapshot with approx 20 million newly placed blocks.

Update #114 : 06/13/2013 8:59:39 pm6/13/13

Here are some forum banners you can use across the Internet to help out the Project. Use the imgur url link under the image to use that image:

If someone asked you to build a project that took ~10 years, and you had the choice to pick a flat world or a normal world, you would pick the flat. No one wants to spend so much time on excavating something when they have the option to be gone with it completely.

I can't believe it! It's so big, and not even finished! It seriously is the BEST build I ever saw in Minecraft. When I get a lot of money I WILL DONATE, this is too amazing to ignore. I adore the historical side of it, while the building is as cool. Everything for people now is "epic", which this word doesn't give much meaning, but THIS is truly epic and divine.